TheGrimLord: No, because in Japan which was at the time pretty much closed off, they had their own version of adult games PC. Many of these games were not made available internationally until much later. They're a majority untranslated. The western adult market and Eastern adult market are two different things. In fact, because some Japanese are xenophobic or they don't feel we will understand their cultural sexual norms, they choose not to release or officially translate their games. Type Moon used to be like this and Eushully stands firm on it. This is not the west, Playboy or Softporn. This is a small island with a small indie dev scene mostly for them, which caught onto the west. That being said, most of these games are still not made directly for the west. You may see that change as the yen continues to fail and the Japanese seek financial assistance.
Point being, we're talking about a then mostly isolated country. Whatever we were doing in the 80's, Japan wasn't and they weren't influenced much by it either. They had their own cultural traditions there and those have carried on into this modern age.
RedRagan: I actually laughing, I'm serious, I was expecting a typical rebuttal but your argument made me laugh!
One, it's the 80s, as in 1980s! Japan selling their stuff all over the world. You're talking as if Japan is still pre-1853! Grandpa, I think you need to buy a new history book!
Also, here I am sitting, looking at the shelf where I got my old ass games from Japan that I bought since the early 90s (yes, I'm old AF), some of them hentai games, from importers and people who went to Japan I ask them to buy games from. It's not that hard to get Japanese games if you know what to do. Hell, my friend has a huge library of PS2 Japanese games only. Old weeb find a way.
Ironically, most old weebs actually go out more because public internet is still in its infancy and we actually enjoy group watchalong and of course sharing mature material among weebs. First they're VHS and pirated floppy disks than we move on to burned CD copies.
And regarding translation, you do realize that fan translation exist for decades right?
Never underestimate horny weebs from 80s and 90s. We WILL find a way.
Well, get to work. I want to play some of those PC98 games in English. Also, someone needs to properly translate Dividead. They really fucked it up. Sure, you may have the games, but Horny weebs from the 80's, like myself want that old shit in proper English. At least The Sagara Family got remastered.
Also, no I'm not an idiot who is unaware of fan translations. I know some people in that very scene. Please don't think of me as someone who doesn't know about this stuff or I would not be speaking with the publishers and localizers.
Also, you talked about Japan selling their stuff all over the world, yet we didn't get several of those PC98 games in English. Period. So that proves my argument. The eastern scene is not in any way comparable to the western scene. Hell, let me know what western porn you've found with scat, watersports, rape, beastiality and God knows what else. Even the monster fucking is Japanese. That's their market. If you were alive in the 80's and 90's then you remember how niche this shit was.
The indie scene of RPG Maker and such games of this era cannot even be remotely compared to the PC98 visual novel days. They simply weren't making these kinds of games back then. These Kagura games are cheaply made for other Horny Japanese weebs, which aren't even the majority because most Japanese prefer the Honey Select series to anything else. If anything, we're actually in the final days of this RPG Maker trend since there seems to be more of a push for Unity and mobile apps. The PC titles are becoming more simplistic for a mobile based gaming market. Kagura has been around for quite a while now, but I don't think this trend is going to continue much longer.
Gone are the dating Sims, Japanese now want a character they can manipulate on screen with their finger. They want interactivity. There are a lot of reasons for that, many of which quite depressing, but it's true. The future of these games are mobile interactive experiences.